03-Sep-2019 02:52

Elaine De Lott matured from a smart college junior into a seasoned community organizer and young adult while participating in the seismic shift that changed American history by changing Mississippi history in 19.In that process she co-authored one of the signal documents that helped to shape the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s--"Position Paper 24," which historians have named "the Waveland Memo," anonymously submitted for discussion in November 1964 at a SNCC staff meeting in Waveland, Mississippi (See Document 43).

Three of her four grandparents were from Eastern Europe.How did young white women like Elaine De Lott get involved?Traditional patterns of religious and secular philanthropy drew her and others to Mississippi; she arrived in Mississippi as part of a foundation grant that sent Harvard University students to be supplemental summer school faculty at Tougaloo College, a historically Black institution founded by northern missionaries in 1869, in Tougaloo, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, the state capital.Her father left school in the 8th grade to help support his family, working as a plumber's helper.Her maternal grandmother, Esther, lived downstairs and modeled high ethical standards, never gossiping, reading the Bible every day, and always scrupulous in human relationships.

Three of her four grandparents were from Eastern Europe.How did young white women like Elaine De Lott get involved?Traditional patterns of religious and secular philanthropy drew her and others to Mississippi; she arrived in Mississippi as part of a foundation grant that sent Harvard University students to be supplemental summer school faculty at Tougaloo College, a historically Black institution founded by northern missionaries in 1869, in Tougaloo, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, the state capital.Her father left school in the 8th grade to help support his family, working as a plumber's helper.Her maternal grandmother, Esther, lived downstairs and modeled high ethical standards, never gossiping, reading the Bible every day, and always scrupulous in human relationships.Patch was the first white woman to integrate a SNCC field project, joining Charles Sherrod in Albany, Georgia in June 1962.